Making history here. You might never have believed a Cruise reference would ever grace these pages. But he is the latest in a list that includes Madonna, Koresh, and Heaven's Gate. Society mocks him for his religious beliefs, and granted they deserve to mocked, but not in the subtle ways the media does it. They can't outright offend a whole religion, so they merely mention his beliefs in articles that describe his irrational behavior, and then let the readers connect the dots subconsciously.
Their purpose isn't the mockery of individual religions, however, but rather mockery of all religion. Once you have it in your head that Scientologists are crazy, it's not a far stretch to then connect insanity to the truth. Freedom of the press is an extension of the freedom after the fall to sin and run away from God.
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